https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/02/11/second-look-at-chinese-authoritarianism/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 04:13:32 -0400<![CDATA[Should the 18th Party Congress&#8217; initiatives succeed, 2012 might one day be seen as marking the end of the idea that electoral democracy is the only legitimate and effective system of political governance. While China&#8217;s might grows, the West&#8217;s ills multiply: since winning the Cold War, the United States has, in one generation, allowed its middle class to disintegrate. Its infrastructure languishes in disrepair, and its politics, both electoral and legislative, have fallen captive to money and special interests. Its future generations will be so heavily indebted that a sustained decline in average living standards is all but certain. In Europe, too, monumental political, economic, and social distress has caused the European project to run aground. Meanwhile, during the same period, China has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and is now a leading industrial powerhouse.]]>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:20:33 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/02/11/second-look-at-chinese-authoritarianism-n100057